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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teachers Association
PD Points and Teacher Licensing: Chickens and Eggs
I am nearing the end of my five year cycle for recertification, so I am reviewing what professional development activities I have participated in to see what qualifies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPad Addiction
In Baseline Mag: Some thoughts and statistics about how people are getting addicted to the tablet format. Retailers and marketers should notice this.
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the Papal Election
As the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope, security people like me wonder about the process. How does it work, and just how hard would it be to hack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Create a Mind
A piece on Ray Kurzweil's (now at Google) latest book: How to Create a Mind: the Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Always fascinating, sometimes over the top...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Cost of Suspicion
An interesting HBR case study of the cost of suspicion in the enterprise. Refreshingly different piece. Also hints at how this can go beyond just the usual personnel...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Obama Endorses Programming Classes in High School
On one hand this is great. The President of the United States promotes computer science education. On the other hand he talks about it primarily as a vocational...
From Schneier on Security
All Those Companies that Can't Afford Dedicated Security
This is interesting: In the security practice, we have our own version of no-man's land, and that's midsize companies. Wendy Nather refers to these folks as being...
From Putting People First
The curious cult of the connected thermostat
Nick Hunn, CTO at Onzo, a “smarter than normal” Smart Energy start-up, criticizes the service model of the Nest thermostat: “A basic programmable thermostat in...
From Wild WebMink
Python Issue Slithers Away?
Looks like Python Hosting is no more. I’ve seen nothing official, but I note from veber.co.uk that the new name for their cloud hosting is Veber Cloud. My story...
From Putting People First
Lean and user experience, again
When anthropologist Natalie Hanson was asked last year to contribute to a new book called The Handbook of Business Anthropology, edited by Rita Denny and Patty...
From Putting People First
How will big data change design research?
Will design researchers (and our models and explanations) be replaced by data tables and “experience actuaries” that tell us what to build, for whom, and what it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks Retooling the Android
We used so-called artificial neural nets (ANN) in the enterprise over a decade ago for specific kinds of focused analysis of consumer data. Inspired by the brain's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evidence Tablets are Eroding PC Market
In GigaOM: Even a cursory observation in any airport waiting room will demonstrate this. " Naysayers may continue to ignore the trend, but tablets aren’t toys...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Releases Strategy to Tackle Trade Secret Theft
A new White House strategy paper released on Wednesday outlines a five-pronged approach for protecting trade secrets of U.S. companies against a growing threat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Chipset
Metaio announces bringing this idea to market today. A good idea for prototyping applications of AR. I also see specialized applications of augmented reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crime Prediction with Selective Data
In GigaOm: Overview of a recent paper on crime prediction using Big Data. Nicely done, good example that whose principles can be reapplied in other domains....
From Computational Complexity
Interruptions
I got a new toy this week, the Pebble watch which I got early because I pre-ordered donated to their Kickstarter campaign. It's a little buggy and the promised...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peer review without journals or conferences
Almost all scientists ask their peers to review their work outside of the formal process offered by journals and conferences. Young scientists are routinely told...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Testimony on “Applications for Information Technology Research & Development” to House Science Committee Subcommittee on Research
On February 14, Kelly Gaither (Texas Advanced Computing Center), Kathryn McKinley (Microsoft Research), and Ed Lazowska (University of Washington and Computing...
From Schneier on Security